The European Coordination Committee of the Radiological, Electromedical, and Healthcare IT Industry (COCIR) has named Annabel Seebohm as its new secretary general. She begins her tenure in the new position on 1 June.
Annabel Seebohm. Photo courtesy of Sciana/Katrin Kerschbaumer.Seebohm's appointment follows the passing of Nicole Denjoy in June 2021. She joins the COCIR from the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME), for which she also served as secretary general.
Issues she will address in the new role will include the COCIR's contribution to COVID-19 recovery across the fields it serves, implementing Europe's Beating Cancer Plan, helping to establish the European Health Data Space, and deploying the Innovative Health Initiative, COCIR said.
Annika Eberstein has been serving as the interim COCIR secretary general since July 2021.
![Overview of the study design. (A) The fully automated deep learning framework was developed to estimate body composition (BC) (defined as subcutaneous adipose tissue [SAT] in liters; visceral adipose tissue [VAT] in liters; skeletal muscle [SM] in liters; SM fat fraction [SMFF] as a percentage; and intramuscular adipose tissue [IMAT] in deciliters) from MRI. The fully automated framework comprised one model (model 1) to quantify different BC measures (SAT, VAT, SM, SMFF, and IMAT) as three-dimensional (3D) measures from whole-body MRI scans. The second model (model 2) was trained to identify standardized anatomic landmarks along the craniocaudal body axis (z coordinate field), which allowed for subdividing the whole-body measures into different subregions typically examined on clinical routine MRI scans (chest, abdomen, and pelvis). (B) BC was quantified from whole-body MRI in over 66,000 individuals from two large population-based cohort studies, the UK Biobank (UKB) (36,317 individuals) and the German National Cohort (NAKO) (30,291 individuals). Bar graphs show age distribution by sex and cohort. BMI = body mass index. (C) After the performance assessment of the fully automated framework, the change in BC measures, distributions, and profiles across age decades were investigated. Age-, sex-, and height-adjusted body composition reference curves were calculated and made publicly available in a web-based z-score calculator (https://circ-ml.github.io).](https://img.auntminnieeurope.com/mindful/smg/workspaces/default/uploads/2026/05/body-comp.XgAjTfPj1W.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
